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The Extended Phenotype - Richard Dawkins

The Extended Phenotype

Richard Dawkins

出版社

Oxford University Press, USA

出版时间

1999-08-05

ISBN

9780192880512

评分

★★★★★

标签

科普进化论道金斯生物学

书籍介绍
如果说《自私的基因》让读者第一次站在基因的角度俯瞰生命，那么这本书就是把这架望远镜再拉长一倍：表型不再局限于生物体的身体，而是延伸到巢穴、寄生、乃至行为本身。道金斯的核心主张锋利而冒犯——基因是真正的
作者简介
Richard Dawkins is the first holder of Oxford's newly endowed Charles Simonyi Professorship of Public Understanding of Science. Born in Nairobi of British parents, Richard Dawkins was educated at Oxford and did his doctorate under the Nobel-prizewinning ethologist Niko Tinbergen. From 196769 he was an Assistant Professor at the University of California at Berkeley, then he returned to Oxford as University Lecturer (later Reader) and a Fellow of New College, before taking up his present position in 1995. Richard Dawkins's bestselling books have played a significant role in the renaissance of science book publishing for a general audience. The Selfish Gene (1976; second edition 1989) was followed by The Extended Phenotype (1982), The Blind Watchmaker (1986), River Out of Eden (1995), Climbing Mount Improbable (1996), and Unweaving the Rainbow (1998). He has won many literary and scientific awards.
AI导读
核心看点
  • 深化自私基因理论，探讨基因如何影响环境与其他生物
  • 提出延伸表型概念，打破基因作用仅限于个体身体的局限
  • 系统阐述自然选择机制，解析复制子与表型效应的关系
读者共识
  • 作为自私基因的补充，理论深度大，具有划时代意义
  • 内容硬核且略显罗嗦，不适合追求轻松阅读的读者
  • 观点极具启发性，是生物哲学入门的经典之作
精彩摘录
  • "Brockmann studied two populations of wasps, one in Michigan and one in New Hampshire. The results were different in the two populations. In Michigan the model failed to predict the observed results, and we concluded that it was quite inapplicable to the Michigan population, for unknown reasons as di"
  • "Once the behaviour complex had been built up, it is easy to imagine a single major mutation arising, whose effect is to destroy it. Geneticists perforce must exploit the genetic variation available for them to study. They also believe that natural selection must have worked on similar genetic variat"
  • "'In cervine deer, antler size increases more than proportionately to body size . . . so that larger deer have more than proportionately large antlers. It is then unnecessary to give a specifically adaptive reason for the extremely large antlers of large deer' (Lewontin 1979)."
  • "All primates have teeth; this is just a plain fact about primates, and it is therefore unnecessary to give a specifically adaptive reason for the presence of teeth in primates."
  • "Deer have evolved a developmental mechanism such that growth of antlers relative to body size is allometric with a particular constant of allometry. Very probably the evolution of this allometric system of development occurred under the influence of selection pressures having nothing to do with the "
  • "Nature does not have the foresight to put together a sequence of mutations which, for all that they may entail temporary disadvantage, set a lineage on the road to ultimate global superiority. It cannot refrain from favouring slightly advantageous available mutations now, so as to take better advant"
  • "There is really no need for the 'loser' lineage of an arms race to go extinct, as suggested for the cicada parasitoid. It may be that the 'winner' is such a rare species that it constitutes a relatively negligible risk to individuals of the 'loser' species. The winner only wins in the sense that its"
  • "The replicators in frequent existence today constitute a relatively successful subset of those that have existed in the past. A given replicator in me could, in theory, be traced backwards through a straight line of ancestors. These ancestors, and the environments that they provided for the replicat"
用户评论
当初啃的，有点意思
看了新版The selfish gene的最后一章，基本就了解这本书的内容了
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这本要学术好多
生物哲学入门书
中心思想： An animal's behaviour tends to maximize the survival of the genes 'for' that behaviour, whether or not those genes happen to be in the body of the particular animal performing it.
观点不完全同意，但是写的真好呀
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